The second generation current conveyor CCII is introduced in this paper as a most versatile analog building block for realization of many other active circuits and applications. Short overview of interesting connections, using modular approach of design, with CCII are presented here, as well as two topologies of the conveyor, realized in CMOS technology, including their measured parameters.

An analogue adaptive filter for dynamic response compensation of a load cell sensor is presented. The filter employs only transistors and therefore it can be integrated using standard digital CMOS technology, which is suitable for System-on-Chip applications. To perform adaptive compensation over a wide range of measurand, a novel CMOS multiplier circuit was developed. The analogue adaptive fil...

A two-dimensional network for motion detection constructed of simple analog circuits was proposed and designed based on the frog visual system. In the frog visual system, the two-dimensional motion of a moving object can be detected by performing simple information processing in the tectum and thalamus of the frog brain. The measured results of the test chip fabricated by a 1.2 μm complementary...

In this thesis three novel analog techniques for testing CMOS Integrated circuits are presented. These techniques are based on analog circuits since they offer a number of important advantages compared to standard digital test techniques, such us less silicon area, lower power consumption and high operating speed. Therefore, the proposed techniques can be embedded in the circuit under test, con...

A network for the detection of an approaching object with simple-shape recognition is proposed based on lower animal vision. The locust can detect an approaching object through a simple process in the descending contralateral movement detector (DCMD) in the locust brain, by which the approach velocity and direction of the object is determined. The frog can recognize simple shapes through a simp...

The tradition of implementing analogue circuits by means of voltage amplifiers is almost as old as the concept of electronic circuit design. The integrated electronic circuit, however, is a relatively new concept. Furthermore, integrated electronic circuits have significantly different limitations and strengths to the conventional discrete electronic circuits have. Since the active devices in i...

We describe a hierarchical structure for a knowledge-based analog circuit synthesis tool. Analog circuit topologies are represented as a hierarchy of abstract functional blocks each with associated design knowledge. We also describe mechanisms to select from among alternate design styles, and to translate performance specifications from one level in the hierarchy to the next lower level. A prot...

a high accurate and low-voltage analog cmos current divider which operates with a single power supply voltage is designed in 0.18µm cmos standard technology. the proposed divider uses a differential amplifier and transistor in triode region in order to perform the division. the proposed divider is modeled with neural network while tlbo algorithm is used to optimize it. the proposed optimization...

This paper describes analog/mixed-signal circuit design in the nano CMOS era. Digitally-assisted analog technology is becoming more important, and as an example, our fully digital FPGA implementation of a TDC with self-calibration is shown. Since pure analog circuits are still present and “good” device modeling is required for their designs, device modeling technology for nano CMOS with complic...